sociology: the treadmill of production, risk society, and ecological modernization. We conclude that these theories are not clear about either what expertise is or how to balance scientism and powerism. Therefore, we turn to science and technology studies
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Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging
Environmental Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies
Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- Research Article
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- 309–331 (23 total)
The Social Life of Blame in the Anthropocene
Peter Rudiak-Gould
The Anthropocene can be understood as a crisis of blame: it is not only a geological era but also a political zeitgeist in which the marks of human agency and culpability can be perceived nearly everywhere. Treating global climate change as a metonym for this predicament, I show how life in the Anthropocene reconfigures blame in four ways: it invites ubiquitous blame, ubiquitous blamelessness, selective blame, and partial blame. I review case studies from around the world, investigating which climate change blame narratives actors select, why, and with what consequences. Climate change blame can lead to scapegoating and buck-passing but also to their opposites. Given that the same ethical stance may lead to radically different consequences in different situations, the nobleness or ignobleness of an Anthropocene blame narrative is not a property of the narrative itself, but of the way in which actors deploy it in particular times and places.
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2015
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- Research Article
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- 48–65 (18 total)
When “Nature” Strikes: A Sociology of Climate Change and Disaster Vulnerabilities in Asia
Md Saidul Islam and Si Hui Lim
Home to 60 percent of the world's population, Asia accounts for 85 percent of those killed and affected globally by disaster events in 2011. Using an integrated sociological framework comprised of the pressure and release (PAR) model and the double-risk society hypothesis, and drawing on data obtained from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), PreventionWeb, and the IPCC special report on extreme events, this article offers a sociological understanding of disaster development and recovery in Asia. The particular focus is on seven Asian countries, namely, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Rather than treating disasters entirely as “natural” events caused by “violent forces of nature”, we emphasize various ways in which social systems create disaster vulnerability. We argue that existing disaster mitigation and adaptation strategies in Asia that focus almost entirely on the natural and technological aspects of hazards have serious limitations, as they ignore the root causes of disaster vulnerabilities, such as limited access to power and resources. This article therefore recommends a holistic approach to disaster management and mitigation that takes into consideration the various larger social, political, and economic conditions and contexts.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2015
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- Research Article
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- 57–80 (24 total)
What Determines Individual Demand for Ecosystem Services?
Insights from a Social Science Study of Three German Regions
Sophie Peter
this framework it is possible to study how risks, like biodiversity loss, cause irritations in subsystems and to investigate how society responds to these. Beck's “world risk society,” or “second modernity,” offers another theoretical approach
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- 26–57 (32 total)
Changing Approaches to the Future in Swedish Forestry, 1850–2010
Erland Mårald and Erik Westholm
in politics and planning has declined. Beck (1992) and Giddens (1994) elaborated on the “risk society” as a new form of modernity. Beck (1992) defines the risk society as a systematic way of dealing with the hazards and insecurities induced and
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Posthuman? Nature and Culture in Renegotiation
Kornelia Engert and Christiane Schürkmann
Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter .” Signs: Journal of Woman in Culture and Society 28 ( 3 ): 801 – 831 . https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/345321 10.1086/345321 Beck , Ulrich . 1992 . Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Introduction: Perspectives on the (Re-)Production of Knowledge
Hannah Swee and Zuzana Hrdličková
Affect in Post-Katrina Recovery Planning ”. Human Organization 70 ( 2 ): 118 – 127 . 10.17730/humo.70.2.d4356255x771r663 Beck , Ulrich . 1992 . Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity . London : Sage . Button , Gregory . 2010 . Disaster Culture
Is Risk a Drive for Change? Pollution and Risk Displacement in 1970s to 1980s Hong Kong
Lam Yee Man
Original: 不要隨意拋棄垃圾. References Beck , Ulrich . 1992 . Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity , trans. Mark Ritter . London ; Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications . Beck , Ulrich . 1995a . “ Politics in Risk Society .” In Ecological
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 165–195 (31 total)
Climate Cosmopolitics and the Possibilities for Urban Planning
Donna Houston, Diana McCallum, Wendy Steele, and Jason Byrne
.1111/1468-2427.12050 Bulkeley , Harriet . 2001 . “ Governing Climate Change: The Politics of Risk Society? ” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 26 ( 4 ): 430 – 447 . 10.1111/1475-5661.00033 Byrne , Jason , Brendan Gleeson , Michael Howes , and
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- 259–277 (19 total)
Symbolizing Destruction
Environmental Activism, Moral Shocks, and the Coal Industry
Alison E. Adams, Thomas E. Shriver, and Landen Longest
, Tim . 2008 . “ Feeling Secure or Being Secure? Why It Can Seem Better Not to Protect Yourself against a Natural Hazard .” Health, Risk & Society 10 ( 5 ): 479 – 490 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13698570802381162 . 10
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 249–271 (23 total)
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